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Posted April 22, 2014
I'm not sure if that is what it is called, but I'm talking about the little shield thing that shows up next to icons (on Win 7 for me). Every GOG game I install seems to get that, so every time I want to play anything, I have to click it, then click YES to:
"Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?"

Now it DOES have a little button that says "Change when these notifications appear", but that'd change it for everything, not just the GOG games. Is there a way for me to do something with the GOG games (during installation, after, whenever) so that the shield thing goes away?

Thanks in advance!
This question / problem has been solved by Psyringeimage
Posted April 22, 2014
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-create-program-shortcut-run-without-uac-prompt-windows-7.htm
Posted April 22, 2014
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babark: Is there a way for me to do something with the GOG games (during installation, after, whenever) so that the shield thing goes away?
Exceptions to UAC in Windows 7 should be what you want.
Posted April 22, 2014
go to configuration in windows > user account > change user control setting. change the notify me to prefably the lowest setting.
Posted April 22, 2014
I would recommend to first try to simply remove the shield. Many games do not actually need elevated permissions, and in these cases the shield can be removed without any repercussions.

To remove the shield, right-click on the shortcut, then select "Properties", then go to the "Compatibility" tab, then remove the checkmark from "Run this program as administrator" and click "Ok". Then try if the game still works.

If the game actually requires elevated permissions, then I' check out the suggestions that deal with the notifications.
Post edited April 22, 2014 by Psyringe
Posted April 22, 2014
Thanks Psyringe! Your solution was also provided as an addition to the very convoluted ones requiring me to create a task scheduler shortcut.

Simply setting the UAC to the lowest setting would probably work, but I'd like to think that Windows is intelligent enough to occasionally warn me of actual dangers.

But it seems to have really got it ass-backwards if REMOVING "Run as Administrator" actually makes things easier. It is really weird. The permissions on all the GOG games are always something along the lines of "Make changes to your Hard disk" or something, and I'm pretty sure a game from GOG won't delete my system files or anything, so I think I'll be fine.

Odd that it only happens with GOG games (so far as I can see). Is GOG an "unknown publisher" to windows, but not Steam or Dosbox?
Post edited April 22, 2014 by babark
Posted April 22, 2014
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babark: Thanks Psyringe! Your solution was also provided as an addition to the very convoluted ones requiring me to create a task scheduler shortcut.

Simply setting the UAC to the lowest setting would probably work, but I'd like to think that Windows is intelligent enough to occasionally warn me of actual dangers.

But it seems to have really got it ass-backwards if REMOVING "Run as Administrator" actually makes things easier. It is really weird. The permissions on all the GOG games are always something along the lines of "Make changes to your Hard disk" or something, and I'm pretty sure a game from GOG won't delete my system files or anything, so I think I'll be fine.

Odd that it only happens with GOG games (so far as I can see). Is GOG an "unknown publisher" to windows, but not Steam or Dosbox?
windows isn't smart enough with that, and you actually need a good aniti virus and especially an anti malware kit that truely will block most unwanted stuff.
Posted April 22, 2014
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babark: The permissions on all the GOG games are always something along the lines of "Make changes to your Hard disk" or something, and I'm pretty sure a game from GOG won't delete my system files or anything, so I think I'll be fine.
UAC doesn't actually have a granular permission system per application. Either the application runs restricted (and will then have write access only to files in your own user directory, cannot modify the memory of other applications, and can only see the applications your user has permission to see) or it runs elevated (and have write permissions everywhere the administrator user does, as well as other applications' memory, including ones not visible to normal users).

What you're seeing is a warning that (any) elevated applications have almost full access to your system (including write access to folders best left alone if you're not very certain of what you're doing).
Posted April 22, 2014
Are you installing your games into the Program Files folder? If you are, try sticking them in C:\Games or similar. Windows protects the Program Files folder more than other locations.
Posted April 22, 2014
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Crispy78: Are you installing your games into the Program Files folder? If you are, try sticking them in C:\Games or similar. Windows protects the Program Files folder more than other locations.
Doesn't help, I'm afraid. The GOG installer sets up all games to be run as admin. Neccesary for some games, and doesn''t break anything in others (except that non-admins can't run the game without entering the credentials for an admin account), so simplier for the QA team to just have it set for everything rather than find out which games actually need it.
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